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Dec. 3, 2019 - Roosh V - Daryush Valizadeh
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Babylon Road #24 - Reidsville, Charlottesville, The End
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All right, kids, it's time for the journey home.
Let's do a roll call, make sure I have everyone.
Bert, Bert's here.
Tom, the watchman with his watch.
Tom's here.
Sally, the drug-addicted foster child.
She's here.
Maggie.
Maggie's hungry, but she's here.
And C Bass.
Seabass.
Seabass, where are you, boy?
Oh, here he is.
Good C Bass.
Good CBS.
Get in the back.
All right, me and the brood, we are making the journey to Washington, D.C. to spend Thanksgiving with the grandparents for a job well done.
And before I get there, I want to share some lessons I learned from being on the road for five months.
So let's begin.
In Reidsville,
North Carolina.
It's a southern town, very southern, way more southern than Charlotte.
Pretty standard, nothing special, but it feels a little bit like Georgia.
People are way more friendly than in Charlotte and get a little bit of that Georgian vibe.
One thing I'm curious about is as North Carolina turns blue, what are these southerners here going to do once the blue zombies try to grab their guns and raise their taxes?
You may think they're going to act the same as in California, which is to flee, but I don't think that's going to be the case here because the people who are fleeing from California, they weren't there for a long time.
They were there for maybe one generation or two.
So the most rootless people went to California and when things go bad, they leave California.
But here, people have been here for a long, long time.
So they're not going to easily go anywhere.
And where are they going to go anyway?
They are not as, they are not flush with that Silicon Valley money like people on the West Coast are.
So I think the response here in the southern parts are going to be different.
And we're not going to have to wait long to find out.
So I'll be curious to see how that plays out.
So I wanted to recap my tour for you.
And first let me share a couple of numbers so you understand the scope of what this tour entailed.
I was on the road for a hundred and sixty days total.
I left around June 17 and I'm finishing by Thanksgiving.
I visited approximately 115 cities, and by visited I mean I went there, I stayed for an hour to have lunch, to do some work, or way longer, or up to four days, so to just to get a general feel of what the city was.
So 115 cities in the United States.
I went to 11 national parks.
I bought a National PARK Service card, for I think it was $80 and it gave me entrance to all of those parks.
I would say my favorite it was the Rocky Mountains.
That really got me.
It was perhaps some of the most beautiful landscapes that I have seen.
But a lot of the other parks were very good too.
I can't say there was any ugly park, but the most disappointing was the Black Hills in South Dakota, where Mount Rushmore is.
I just wasn't that impressed there.
I've been to four monasteries, two Russian Orthodox, one Serbian Orthodox St. Herm St. Herman's is actually a Serbian Orthodox monastery and one Greek Orthodox.
So there I got to see what the holy life was about and I received much valuable guidance and blessings from my visits there.
I went to 15 churches for the Sunday service, so I worshipped in 15 different churches.
Nine of those were Armenian and the rest of them were either Greek Orthodox, Antiochian or Orthodox Church Of America.
So those were all very valuable experiences, and I can say that I probably received more guidance in the churches than in the monasteries.
So, like I've said before, you don't need to go to a monastery to receive guidance.
A good parish priest can also help put you on the right path too.
What else?
So I did 23 talks, 23 talks.
All of them were done in hotel conference rooms.
The LA one was in an athletic club they, it was called and at these 23 talks I gave some of the lessons I've learned in life leading up to my turn back towards God, to my baptismal faith, the Armenian Orthodox Church.
And the talk itself had ranged from 90 minutes long to two, two and a half hours long.
I don't know how it got that long.
I was just adding things.
And next thing, you know, the time extended a bit and I did a Q ⁇ A.
So each talk I stood in front of the audience for four hours.
So it's about 90 hours of public speaking experience.
What a great experience that was to learn how to talk in front of people, how to read them, how to entertain them, educate them, inspire them, and so I won't forget that how many People came to hear me talk, about 900 people came.
So, I averaged about 40 people per talk.
The two biggest were the New York and LA talks.
They were about 75 people each.
And the smallest, I think the smallest was Salt Lake City.
I think that one was about 16 people or so, or 15.
And the two cities that were surprisingly a bit large were the Minneapolis and the Nashville talks.
I didn't think I had a lot of people follow me there.
All right, that's something kidding me.
But quite a few people came there.
And the number that is most important: how many bangs did I get?
How many notches did I get?
I am proud to say zero.
Zero bangs.
Before, I would be embarrassed to say for five months I didn't sleep with any girls, but now I'm proud.
I shouldn't be proud.
Pride is bad, but pride is a deadly sin.
But let me just be proud for a second where I know I didn't sleep with any girl.
There was definitely temptations, there were opportunities.
There was at least one, I would say, sure thing.
But no, I was able to resist thanks to God's help.
So that was the tour by the numbers.
Oh, and also one other number.
How many miles did I drive?
I drove about 15,000 miles.
So even though the U.S. is 3,000 miles back and forth, I didn't take a straight route.
And actually, I do have a map.
Let me pull up that map now.
So as you can see, I went up to the northeast, came back down, then went through the west, up in the northern part of the country, dipped down to Colorado, did Yellowstone, then up to Seattle, down the coast, and cut back over through the southwest, through Texas, went to Florida, came back up and went backwards again, and up through Atlanta, Alabama, and Tennessee.
Then I cut back up and now I'm going to the north.
So this was pretty involved.
This was a little bit tough.
A lot of driving.
I can tell you right now, I don't want to go on any vacations.
Don't tell me to visit a place that's more than one hour away from the DC area.
No airplanes, travel, hotels.
I stayed in about, I would estimate about 60 different hotels.
I'm tired of that.
Tired of living out of a bag in the trunk of my car.
So that's the tour by the numbers.
Now, what did I learn from all of that?
The first thing I learned is that America is both very beautiful and very ugly at the same time.
The beauty is centered mostly around the parks and the nature.
I only got to see the USA during the summer, but I can only imagine how it's like in the winter with the snow.
I saw a little bit of the fall, how it is in the springtime.
So we have some amazing parks, some parks that blow away just about everywhere else.
I understand totally why foreigners from as far as China come to the USA just to rent an RV and to look at our parks.
I mean, a lot of other countries don't have parks such as this.
But you don't need to go to a park to see beauty.
You go in the country.
You see how people are living on their homesteads, on their farms, how they raise their families in a godly way.
I was lucky enough to be invited to many homesteads where I got to see it firsthand, this kind of human beauty, where people have adopted their natural roles, their godly roles, and they are making it work without a lot of the ugliness that you can see elsewhere.
Not only that, but the beauty that I saw in the churches, the faith.
And if someone has faith, beauty comes out of them.
It's not just the beauty on the surface where you look at someone's makeup and lips and hair and their muscles.
That without faith is really ugly, actually.
It's not enough just to look good, skin deep.
What is the faith like?
And from faith, you can take an ugly person, make them more beautiful than anyone else.
And, you know, you don't have to worry about your look as much when it comes to beauty.
And if you make a false God out of your looks alone, you can look like a model, but be the ugliest person there.
And speaking of ugliness, this is in the USA, it's the cities.
The cities are tremendously ugly.
They all are operated through this copy and pay social engineering.
And you go into them, it seems like all of the beauty has been driven out.
And I know that one of the mottos of Las Vegas was sin city.
But now all the cities are full of sin, full of people who want to do the wrong thing, who want to participate in vice and degeneracy and drug use and fornication.
In the case of these homeless people, a lot of them, not only are they addicted to drugs, but they're also slothful.
They don't want to work.
They don't want to take their adult responsibilities.
And you also have greed.
People want more and more and more, think that's going to save them, think that's going to make them happy.
So really, I started to get this repulsion because every weekend I had to drive into the city to hold a talk and I just felt such a repulsion from them that people come to the cities not to worship God, not to live in the right way, but to live in the wrong way.
And in some cases, it's not their fault entirely.
They have this college student loan debt and they want to start paying that off and get a job and the jobs for their narrow specialty, for their narrow set of skills is only in the city and then they get sucked in.
It's not an accident that the only place you can make a living after college is the city.
That's how they get you.
They want you to move there.
They want you to get attached to the pleasures that the city has, to the entertainments, to the sex and on and on.
So to me now, where I'm going in life anyway, I'm trying to live in accordance to God, in accordance to His commandments and stay away from sin.
Cities is a tough place to do that because anyone you meet is not going to be, probably not going to be on that path unless they have a family.
Whenever I go to churches, not a lot of young people.
And if there are young people, they're in one of the rock and roll churches where there's an entertainment show or where Joel Osteen, he promises them material blessings if they give him $10 million to get on more TVs.
So this was a bit hard and towards the end I just couldn't take it anymore.
I just didn't want to see it anymore.
I didn't want to see people living in the wrong way.
If they want to, that's fine.
I'm not going to judge them, but I don't want to be tempted by that, especially when I was when I fell to that temptation for about 20 years.
And so that's what I would say about what the U.S. is like.
It's both beautiful and very ugly.
But if you want to experience the beauty, you're going to have to get out of the city and onto the homestead, onto the farm, onto the parks.
And now that more than 50% of the American population is living in the cities, you can argue that the country is becoming uglier.
So that would be the first thing I learned.
The second thing that I learned on this trip is that your faith can be deepened in hellish surroundings.
Before I started this trip, I was reading a lot of spiritual books.
I was reading the Bible every day, up to four hours each day, and I felt very spiritual doing so.
I felt like, yes, my faith is getting deeper because all my knowledge is growing.
And when the tour started, I was a little bit concerned because I could no longer read these books for that long.
I thought my faith was going to get weaker and so on.
But the opposite happened because knowledge alone is not faith.
Reading spiritual books alone is not faith.
It can actually damage your faith.
You can get deceived very easily.
You can feel prideful.
Oh, I'm spiritual now because I read all of these books.
So on the tour, even though I was going into the pits of hell, into a lot of the cities, my faith actually deepened because I could experientially test what I knew, test the knowledge that I had to resist the temptation to treat people as Christ would treat them, not to judge, not to get full of pride as much.
So I would say that my experiential faith blew away all of just the books that I was reading.
And I'm not saying don't read books, and I'm definitely not saying don't read the Bible.
I can't wait to go back to read the Bible again.
But you have to have your faith tested.
You have to have it tried.
If not, it's just going to be in theory.
It's just going to be, yeah, it's going to give you a false confidence that you know God, that you know how to walk the right path.
But until you get out there and you're faced with the evils and you're faced with the temptations and the lust, you may have no idea on how to resist them when they come.
So I took a little foundation from the books and I applied it.
And I had a lot of questions and I had to go to priests.
I had to go to people in the flesh.
I had to receive guidance from people who have walked the path way longer than me.
So this is one thing that I did learn, you know, not to think that just because you can stay at home all day and read a spiritual book, that your faith is growing.
It could be the opposite.
One more comment is that sometimes you need to be surrounded by evil for your faith to grow.
If everything is too good, if you don't have any problems, your comfort is high, why do you need God?
Why do you need to pray?
One thing I have to keep in mind now that my trip is done, I want to pick a great place.
I want to pick a state that's not paused, a red state.
Everyone's conservative and godly.
But if I'm in that place and it really is heaven on earth and it's not going to be, but if it is, then why would I need God?
Maybe a little bit of difficulty is going to be good to keep my faith strong.
So anyway, we're not going to find heaven on this earth.
We're not going to find a completely peaceful place.
And a place that we pick that we think, okay, all the demons are going to be away from me.
It could be the opposite.
So we have to be a little bit careful with that, not to think that I'm going to totally blockade myself from evil.
I'm going to totally box it out.
I'm just going to stay at home and read books.
But the demon will get you another way.
The devil will, if that's what you really think.
Just trust in God to guide you, even though he's sending you women and sexy women.
Ask him to help you out.
Whatever difficulty you face, seek God first.
Ask him for help, and then he will give you what you need.
Don't think that you can go this alone through your knowledge and through your effort, through your research on which county to live, which state to live in.
You can be sorely disappointed when on paper you pick the best place to live, the best state.
And then next thing you know, the U.S. government places 100,000 Muslims in your town.
I mean, they've done this before in Minnesota.
So trust in God.
Don't trust in yourself.
Don't trust in your own knowledge.
And when you are having problems, seek people out.
Seek people who are alive right now.
Don't trust in books only.
Books can give you a false sense of faith.
But read your books, but also have a spiritual guide, a spiritual elder.
If you can do a spiritual father, even in the U.S., that's hard.
But just know that just because you're in a difficult situation, don't think that your faith is going to go down.
Quite the opposite happens.
You know, God puts us through difficult situations and suffering, so we seek him out.
So if you're trying to put yourself in a situation where there is no difficulty, then hey, you may be actually distancing yourself from God instead of the other way around.
So that is the second thing that I learned.
The third thing I've learned from this trip is that America is changing very rapidly.
The most common thing I heard among all the people I talked to in the cities was, Roosh, this city has changed a lot in the past five years.
It's getting really bad.
I have heard this dozens of times.
It was a cliché at some point where I knew I was going to hear it.
And so what does that mean?
Why is all the cities turning bad at the same time?
I believe this is a plan.
I believe this is part of the social engineering plan to destroy the cities at the same time forcing people to live there.
So it's really, I see it as a way to tighten your grip around people, bring in the homeless, bring in the immigrants.
And I do think homelessness is a plan too.
Why?
Because when you're focused on the homeless that is in your city, when you're focused on the doo-doo that's on the street, on the immigrants who maybe have a different way of life than you, you can focus on the people up top.
So all the bad in the city is really to tighten their grip onto you, to control you, to get you focused away from the puppet masters at the top.
That's what I think.
And it can be all a coincidence that they're going bad in the same way, that they're starting to relax laws against theft, relax laws against public urination and all this.
They're all doing it all at the same time.
This is a top-down plan.
But at the same time, they're putting people in so much debt, in student loan debt, credit card debt, and so on, that you're forced to live in the cities or the suburbs in order to make a living.
So you see what the trap is.
They force you to live there, then they make you face all the degradations to keep your mind on your local problems.
And so you no way have enough strength to face those who are at the very top.
So what does that mean?
Well, how, you know, if you remember in Europe a few years ago, they had a plan to bring in 2 million Muslims and they did this very quickly.
And then they kind of stopped it.
So once the elites achieved their goals of destabilization, then they kind of let up on the gas.
So here, I don't know how far they are going to go, but I think they have to go a little bit further to where your sole preoccupation is on how am I going to live here?
How am I going to shield myself, encase myself in my car, in my commute, in my home, just make you really a weak person.
That's what the goal is, to make you weak, to make you enslaved.
And then they're going to provide the solution in terms of more debt, in terms of these kinds of food, in terms of entertainment and fornication.
Now you don't have to go shopping anymore to the mall.
Amazon is going to deliver your consumer goods.
So this is a complex problem.
I don't know exactly how they are doing it, but I'm just sharing my theory and what is going on.
This is by design.
By design, they are trying to weaken us by really degrading where we live.
And I know that Dr. E. Michael Jones talked about it in the book, The Slaughter of Cities.
So, you know, they know that you're going to be too weak to go into the farm country and go into the homestead.
The best you're going to do is get a house in somewhat of a suburb one and a half hours away from the center.
So where you have to drive three hours a day to work to feed your family, but you can't even spend time with your family because you're at work and on the road so much.
So you think you're solving the problem by living in the suburbs, but you're just weakening your family bonds even more.
So you see, unless you get out of the cities, get out of this trap, this job trap that they have you in the cities, then there's no way out.
And well, you're in that trap if you have the student loan.
So you see how they are getting you.
And here's a homeless encampment that we're going to allow down the street from you.
So now you focus on them, on the local concerns, instead of the big concerns about who is really driving this down us.
And if you want to understand what is the goal, it's to enslave you.
It's to enslave you, create such discord, create such disunity between your neighbor that you just feel alone, you feel hopeless, you feel despair, that you can't make a difference.
Things are so bad, I can't help it.
Might as well just masturbate to porn.
Might as well just load up on sugar and things like that.
So it's really to weaken you, to enslave you, and it's working extremely well.
You see people in the West Coast, their cities are being ravaged totally.
The worst standard of living I've seen.
California has to be the worst state that I have been to.
And what do people do there?
They just get up and leave.
They run away to another state, Texas, and so on.
And then what happens in those states?
The same thing.
You can't escape.
You can only stand up and say, no, I do not abide by this.
I do not go along with this.
You have to get out of the trap, get out of the routine they want you to be in.
And this is a very difficult problem.
I'm sure I'll talk about it more in the future.
But this is what's going on.
I believe it's a plan to destroy the cities, to weaken you, to weaken, but forcing you to live there at the same time, to weaken you, to enslave you further, to be totally dependent on the consumer goods and foods and debt that they offer you to make you think you can solve this problem.
And the second you want to fight, well, now I'm not advising anyone to fight.
There has been some men in my talks that have been really angry.
They're ready to pick up guns and things like that.
I don't advise that.
I disavow violence.
But the second you want to fight, you want to join, start a group.
There's going to be numerous feds that are in that group anyway.
So they really got you by the balls.
And to, you know, the fellow sea basses that are watching, what are you going to do about it?
I only say God is a way to solve this.
But other people may think otherwise.
I'm sure we'll have a lot more to talk about this in the future.
I'm in Charlottesville, Virginia, which is a rather beautiful city.
A lot of brick buildings, which look great in the fall, next to the brown leaves.
Architecture is sound, except for the newer buildings.
You have a downtown area, but a little bit too many art studios.
And you know, when you see art studios, the liberals aren't far behind.
A couple of gay flags.
This city is not as bad as Asheville, North Carolina, but I can see it getting there.
And you have the University of Virginia that's here.
And so it has this constant treadmill of liberal-minded people coming in and the professors and so on.
So give it five years, and I'm sure it'll be just like what Asheville is today.
But the highlight of Charlottesville is that this was where the alt-right protest happened a couple of years ago that resulted in the death of Heather Heyer.
And she was part of the counter-protest with the Antifa.
She, I believe, was in the middle of a roadway.
And I was on that road, and it was very narrow.
I mean, this is a road that you could just go a little bit of speed and you can cause a lot of damage.
So she got hit by a car and died.
The leadership of the alt-right, I must say, they fell into a massive trap that anyone could see coming.
They messed up, and but the good news is that we have the Groipers now, and the Groipers put God before race.
Not saying that race isn't important, but God comes first.
And so I think the Groipers have a better chance at establishing a genuine conservative movement in the United States.
But one thing I can say is that the city of Charlottesville, which is run by Democrats, has definitely used the tragedy to elevate their anti-racism platform and anti-fascist platforms.
So, you know, you have to be a little bit careful when you dive into any kind of activism because if you because they are waiting for you to make one misstep and then your misstep will allow them to advance their agenda even faster.
So the alt-right, they fell into a trap and they set back the conservative movement quite a bit.
But hopefully the Groipers will fix that.
So Charlottesville is the last stop I have before going back to DC so I can have Thanksgiving dinner with my parents.
And that's it.
This is the last city.
now I can drive home.
The fourth thing that I learned from my trip is that with God anything is possible.
I didn't think I could complete this trip when planning it because it was just so difficult.
It's too many moving parts.
It was a logistical nightmare.
I was dependent on a car and my own strength and energy.
On and on.
And when I did a previous trip of this scope in South America back in 2007, when I was much younger and stronger, it was just a non-stop series of bad events that I wrote about in my book, A Dead Bad in Paraguay.
It was so bad that I just had to quit.
But one month in, I wanted to quit the trip.
So I really doubted my ability to do this trip.
But as you can see, I did it.
100% success rate.
I didn't even catch a cold.
I wasn't even set back a single day.
The worst thing to happen to me, I would say, is that some bugs in the hotels, they kept biting me.
And I have a couple of scratch marks still.
One time I forgot my toiletry bag in Philly.
I had to go back about an hour.
Another time I took the wrong road.
I lost about three hours.
I'd even get pulled over by a cop based on all of the speeding that I did.
Never got into a fight, wasn't a victim of theft.
Never even got into a verbal confrontation with someone that was actually heated.
My car, it started to make a noise, but that was basically is.
I think it's the ball joint.
So I'm thinking, I mean, so many things could have gone wrong from all the movement I did.
No hotel canceled on me.
I mean, it was just like too easy.
And the hardest thing was just my own personal strength.
I just got tired.
I mean, that I definitely complained about constantly.
But other than the human limitation I have, it was as if the road was cleared for me to do this job.
And I really believe that God did this.
I've done things that weren't nearly as hard, and it just seemed obstacles were turning up everywhere.
But here, no obstacle, not a single one.
So to that, I believe, is a testament to doing God's will.
I believe God wanted me to do this trip not only for myself, but also to reach the other people, the 900 people that I talked to, to hopefully inspire them, hopefully put them on the right path.
And when you are serving the will of God, when it's concerned with your salvation and the salvation of other people, doors open.
The path is cleared out.
Now, I'm not saying that when you serve the will of God, only good things happen to you in this world, that he gives you money and good jobs and good health.
I'm not saying that because it could be for you that your salvation, you need bad things to happen to you in order to reach out to God to ask him for help.
But in this specific mission task I did, I believe it did serve the will of God.
And because it did, because it was a part of his plan for me to do that, he made sure that I was able to do it, that I was able to overcome any physical weakness, any weakness as a human creature.
And so this is now when you understand that you receive God's power when you serve His will, that anything is possible when you serve His will.
For me, the task is, what is His will for me?
What does He want me to do?
And I believe it's continue to share the truth, to share the truth about Him, to share the truth about our human existence, about why we are here.
So, I can't really stress how excited I am to continue after this because if I do serve God's will, He will allow me to do so.
I'm ready, even if bad things happen to me, and I'm sure that they will.
I'm sure that evil will come trying to bang down my door.
I will get sick and I will encounter difficulties.
But now I have God that I can reach out to.
So, I would say that is the fourth thing that I learned.
The fifth thing that I learned from this trip is that, and I know it was kind of shady that I'm in the middle of the woods like this.
The fifth thing is that it's a lie that you cannot have a family today.
It's a lie that any woman is going to cheat on you, rob you, divorce, rape you, that all women are sluts, all women are whores.
This is a lie that I pushed when I was deep into my game phase, when I was just sleeping with sluts.
And it is a lie because I've met countless men who have families that are growing, that their bond between them, these men, and their wives are very strong, healthy, spiritual.
Yes, I met a couple men who were harmed, but if you look at those stories of men who got divorced, their woman took their money, almost all of them, almost all of them, was a secular marriage.
Was a woman that he picked because she was good-looking, because she was fun, because there was an emotional attraction.
But for the spiritual unions, the chance of divorce is low.
It's way lower than 50%.
And I even met men who had up to seven kids.
This was in an Orthodox church, and I hear some kids over there.
Seven kids.
Just in Charlotte, I met a man who had five, another who had three, and they're thinking of having more, and on and on.
And when I was banging, when I was in the middle of fornicating with any woman who would sleep with me on the same night, I didn't see this.
I didn't meet men who had growing families, who would go to church on Sunday, even whose kids were involved in the spiritual life.
I didn't meet maybe a single one.
I only met men who, you know, found a hot girl and he married her and they're moving here, moving there.
Maybe they have one kid.
It's difficult.
It's hard.
Then online you hear all the divorces, non-stop divorce rape.
You think that it's impossible to have a family, but that is a lie.
But that is a lie.
So don't think that you can't do that.
I think these kids are following me.
I have been tracked.
One more thing I can say is that game itself cannot save you.
A secular strategy to get married.
Let me get away from the kids.
A secular way to save yourself, prevent from divorce cannot save you.
Only a spiritual union can.
Because in the game sense, what you have to do is depend on your own psychological knowledge, on your ability to read body language and lies and on and on and on.
But this is going to fail.
And the biggest reason it fails is because your whole relationship is based on mistrust.
You never trust her.
In a relationship around game, you can never trust her because you know that, how did you sleep with her?
You slept with her because you got her emotionally attracted.
So now you know that another man is just one meeting away from allowing her to be emotionally attracted too.
So you're constantly worried that, you know, what is she doing on her phone?
Why was she out an hour late on Thursday night?
Why does she want to travel with her friends?
Why does she want to have a girl's night out?
Why was she smiling at that guy that I saw her talking to in the supermarket?
On and on.
So this, in game sense, you're always in dread, always in dread that she's going to cheat on you and in the case of marriage, take all of your money.
The whole relationship is built on a lie.
You're acting, she is acting, and you're both trying to extract as much pleasure and material rewards from each other that you can.
So this is something that there is no way that I would enter a relationship just using game.
My only game is God, God game, where I pray to him to allow me to bond with the right woman, a woman who follows God.
I'm not number one in her life.
God is.
She has to please him.
I'm number two.
And if she wants to damage her relationship with me, then that's her choice.
She has free will, but knowing that that's going to risk her salvation and her relationship with God.
In a secular relationship, what's the penalty for her lying and cheating on you?
Only there's a penalty if she gets caught, but she will never be sorry.
But in a spiritual union where she believes in God, where she wants to be saved, yeah, she knows what the penalty is.
So if the only penalty in your relationship of your wife cheating on you is her getting caught, then it's going to fail because we are humans and we are weak and we are constantly tempted.
We're constantly filled with passions and without God in your relationship, you're not going to make it.
And I think that's all I had to say about that.
Let me check my notes.
Oh, and the one more thing that this lie about you can't start a family is pushed is because Satan wants you to masturbate.
He wants you to just, yeah, it's impossible to find a wife and it's impossible to start a family.
So just keep masturbating and fornicating.
Yeah, that is your life, anatomized, self-abuser, beaten off every day to these, to this disgusting porn.
That's what Satan wants you to do.
So if you're buying the lie and the lie is causing you to fornicate, to get drunk intoxicate, feed your pride and masturbate, then you now know what the purpose of the lie was, to make you just a shell of a man, stuck in your little box in the city.
Just beating off.
That's what the lie does.
Of course you shouldn't pick the wrong girl.
You pick a secular girl, hey, maybe beating off is going to be better.
But if you pursue the faith and then bond with a woman who is pursuing the faith at the same time, whether that relationship works or not, that's a part of God's plan and you're serving his will by doing that.
So, yeah, don't believe in the lie.
Orient yourself on faith and you'll start seeing a lot of men who are having families that are going well, that are growing, that are expanding.
So that's the fifth thing that I learned.
And the last thing I learned is related to a very common question I was asked on my tours.
Do you think things are getting better or worse?
Do you think we are in the end of times?
Do you see a Christian revival coming?
You know, it's hard not to think that things could be getting better because you see men like me turning to the faith or Kanye West or many other high-profile people.
You see churches, at least in the Orthodox church, are growing, especially the Antiochian church.
I talked to a priest there in Salt Lake.
He said his parish is really growing.
They have to build churches.
The monastery, the Holy Cross Monastery in Wayne, West Virginia, they are building a huge church.
So you see this, like, whoa, the faith is growing.
Things are getting better.
People don't want to be a consumer cog.
They don't want to just use pleasures to get them through the day and just be addicted to stuff and this hyper materialism that we have in the USA.
Things are getting better.
You can say that.
But at the same time, you can say that things are getting more worse than they ever have.
Things are getting worse and worse every day, more and more evil every day.
The average age that they're subjecting children to be tranified is getting younger and younger.
First it was nine years old, then eight.
Now we're getting down to five years old.
You see the drag queen story time is turning into drag queen stripper time.
If you've seen that, now they're doing dances and taking off their closes, which are funded by local taxpayers.
So you're seeing some very, I mean, gay pride every June is getting more and more outrageous.
I don't want to know what next June is going to be like.
And so how can you reconcile this?
How can you reconcile that things are getting better and worse at the same time?
And we have to go to the Bible, Matthew 3, 12, which talks about the wheat and the shaff or chaff.
So what it is, is that the farmer's land was infected with the weeds.
And what is the farmer going to do?
Now his whole crop could be ruined.
And then the farmer said, no, we'll just let the weeds grow alongside the wheat.
And then after the wheat has grown, we will harvest everything and then separate them.
Separate the wheat from the shaft.
The shaft will be thrown into where unquenchable fire.
So this is what I see.
I see to me that says good and evil are growing at the same time.
And the higher good gets, the higher evil gets.
The stronger your faith gets, the more determined people in their rebellion against God get.
So this is what I see.
And we can say, wow, that's kind of bad in some way.
But, you know, would you have come to the faith, or I don't know where you are, maybe you're more sympathetic than you were a couple of years ago.
You be more sympathetic if you didn't see all this evil around you.
So this evil is serving a purpose.
God uses evil for good.
So the way it's going to be is that yes, things are getting better, but at the same time it's going to get worse too.
But you're going to have the faith to get you through it.
So the way I see it, if this is really going on, if a revival is going on, if more people are finding the faith, that means Satan is going to double his efforts.
Satan is going to panic and through his pride and is just going to try to bring the world down even worse.
But this is so.
Personally, I don't look for signs in the culture, in the mainstream, to tell me where my faith should should, be.
If i'm the only Christian man that is left and everyone is gay, everyone is sodomizing everyone, I don't care.
That doesn't mean that I should do it.
So don't take it as a sign that oh, more people are growing in faith, so I should do that too.
You know, don't be a follower of the herd, just be a follower of Christ.
Don't worry about what other people are doing.
This is one common strain I see in people.
They're a little bit overly concerned about where things are going and what the future holds.
If Christianity is going to grow, don't worry about it.
You don't need to worry.
Just worry about your salvation today.
If you are on the right path, if God has put you on the right path, if he's given you the gift of grace, then you can start to worry about the salvation of people close to you.
You can serve a Christ-like example to your family and to your friends not to browbeat them down, of course, not to say you got to go to church and on and on.
So then you can start to be an example to to other people.
If you want to share the truth online, you can do so and on and on.
But really don't worry about, you know, if the world is getting better, if the world is getting worse I mean I, you know it's both are going on at the same time.
Just worry about you and your salvation, the choices that you make every day.
So that's how I see it.
You know, I don't want to be a part of a trend.
If we're in a trend, that's fine, but I don't.
I don't look towards trends to dictate how I live.
You know, don't look at trends.
Jesus is not a trend, you know.
If it becomes a trend in a way that helps some people, that's fine.
I don't care if everyone wants to wear a Jesus shirt, I don't care.
But the true faith is tough.
The true faith is a struggle every day to fight against your passions, against the vices that you have.
It should be difficult.
It shouldn't be this happy Joel Osteen type of you know everything is great.
No talk about hell.
No talk about the punishments you will face if you don't bear fruits in this life.
So that's what I say, get, get ready for evil to grow.
At the same time good grows.
But if you have your faith, if you're strong in God, I believe that you'll be able to make it through.
Because I can tell you what?
If you don't have God, there is no way you're going to make it through.
The evil times that are coming, it's going to go up.
There is no.
What are you going to do?
What are you going to do when the world gets more degraded month after month, when the gays are basically banging on your door to sodomize You?
What are you going to do?
And without God in your life, I just don't see how you can make it through.
So wherever you go, whether you're in the city or in the country, you're going to need God.
And, you know, if you turn to God because a guy online did, if Kanye West did, then so be it.
But it's going to be a long road.
And don't worry about what other people are doing.
Just focus on your faith and you will get there.
A lot of people are asking me for a list of the best and the worst cities that I have been to.
So I wanted to give you a brief list.
Let's start with the worst.
Number three worst city I've been to in the United States.
Yuma, Arizona.
Man, that is ugly.
That is an ugly place.
It looks like a rest stop that turned into a city.
Like a place where truckers go to urinate.
And then they just said, you know what?
This is a nice rest stop.
Let's turn this into a city where people live in.
It's just so ugly, so unaesthetically pleasing.
I did not find many redeemable qualities, if any, there.
So I would say that's the third worst.
The second worst city I have been to in the United States is Portland, Oregon.
What a dump.
That's just a dump.
Most liberal people in the United States.
Just drug-addicted people.
It's pretty extensive.
It's dirty.
You know, the fact that I would rather live in Yuma than in Portland says how bad it is.
And the number one worst city in the United States is Los Angeles.
LA.
How do people live there?
LA is a homeless, tent-city hell with insane traffic.
Yeah, you want to go to the supermarket?
That's going to take two hours to go and come back.
Non-stop traffic.
Just so dense.
Really expensive.
People have ugly souls there, unfortunately.
People go to LA not to worship God.
They go there to stroke their desire for fame, to be a somebody.
It attracts the worst type of people.
This is the hyper-materialistic hell that we have in the USA.
It's just, it sucks.
That place really sucks.
I mean, yeah, you can find some kind of enclave in there, like a good city and a good neighborhood where you can tolerate it.
But you're going to pay up the butt.
You're going to pay up the butt.
I mean, this, you know, Hollywood, the pit, you know, this is Satan.
I mean, I would say that New York and LA are Satan's world headquarters.
So why would you want to live there?
And it just sucks.
It just sucks.
So I'm sure you know that all these three are on the West Coast.
I mean, San Francisco also sucks.
If San Francisco didn't have those cool little hills and stuff, I would put that on the list.
San Francisco isn't bad if you're making like $10,000 a month.
But the West Coast, you know, California obviously is the worst state that I have been to.
Okay, let's talk about the best.
So I don't have a ranking here, so I'll say these in no particular order.
First one is Havre de Grace, Maryland.
This is in the Chesapeake Bay.
I know that Maryland is a hopelessly democratic state, but Havre de Grace is probably the best town in the Northeast for this old-timey type of vibe.
People seem cool.
They're into sailing and somewhat wholesome, wholesome hobbies.
There are some families, a lot of U.S. flags.
I did see a gay flag there, but pretty good for the northeast.
I don't think Hover de Grace, you're going to get better than that up there.
Second city is Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Now, this city is a little bit big, but it feels small.
And the people are just cool.
You know, it's just, you know, don't tread on me.
This real rugged individualism.
And if you just go a few miles out of Cheyenne, you can be in the rancher land and so on.
So Cheyenne is pretty cool.
I just felt more of a masculine man just hanging out there.
The third is Clifton Forge, Virginia.
It's south enough to get a bit of that charm, but not so south that it's a bit, it's exceedingly poor.
It's not a poor place.
It has the great mountain views.
And the cool thing is it's only a few hours away from where my parents live.
This is a place that I could potentially live in.
So when the time comes for me to hunt for a house, maybe I will consider it there.
But it just seems like a nice southern town where men in pickup trucks say blare, not so much hip-hop, but country.
So I liked it there.
I thought that was a livable place.
And the fourth one I would say is in my favorite is Weimar, Texas.
That's a good place if you just want this dusty old Texan town that's kind of dying out, but so what?
You know, I mean, I think you want a dying town where not all the consumer zombies go to.
So I thought that Weimar captured, you know, this old Alamo feeling.
So all four of these are ones that I would consider living in.
But I'm going to have to give Clifton Forge an edge because it has the mountain views and I'm a mountain boy now.
So those are the best and the worst.
As I said, California is the worst state.
In terms of best state, Wyoming, hands down, because Wyoming, you just have so much empty space.
You can live your life devoted to God, devoted to nature.
People aren't going to bother you there.
Just, you know, I felt like the people there were not slaves.
They were more free.
So Wyoming is the best state.
Is there an honorable mention that I have?
Second honorable mention, the runner-up, is South Dakota.
That is another.
That has more of a Wyoming feel to it.
I'm a bit fragile.
I don't know if I can tolerate the extreme cold.
So that's what I would say is the best and the worst.
You know, it's going to take me some time to process all the data that's swimming in my mind, all the cities, but I'm sure that I will have more to share about the best and the worst in the future.
Today is November 28th, 2019.
It's on Thanksgiving, and I am within a stone's throw of my mama's house.
So the tour is officially done.
Road trip is done.
I did a final tally of the mileage, and it's 16,800 miles.
So over 16,000 miles I have driven in five months, about 163 days.
And what a trip it has been.
I am still processing all the places I've seen.
I have thousands of data points in my mind.
Now I have to allow these to connect so I can understand the world that we live in, the country that we live in.
Like I mentioned before, things went exceedingly smoothly.
Didn't even catch a cold, not even a sniffle.
And I thank God for that.
You know, when I drive, I have an icon of Jesus Christ.
He is looking at me, and you can see it maybe there.
And I have a picture of my sister, too.
And I hope that my sister is proud that her big brother finally did a good thing that's not connected to sex.
But I'm also hopeful that the Lord is pleased at me.
He is pleased that, you know, I've turned my orientation away from the secular world and onto him, serving his will and just being a vessel to bring his good onto the world.
And that's how I plan to live.
So a lot of men ask me, what is next?
Well, first thing I got to put a copy of the Tor online for people who didn't come to my talk.
That's going to take about a month.
Then I have to shave this beard.
It is, I am proud of it.
I don't mind how it looks.
But unless I become a priest or a monk, it's a little excessive.
It's a little too biblical.
The secular people cannot handle this beard.
And then the most important thing is to find a home.
I can't serve God from a car.
Well, maybe I could, but I have to find shelter.
And then I'll continue to do the things that I have always done.
Articles, books, and live streams.
It's just the content is going to be different.
But maybe not as different as I thought because I was already on this path for longer than maybe a year.
When you pursue the truth, you come to Jesus Christ.
And I think I had the truth bubbling underneath the surface and I just needed the revelation to come upon me.
And it has.
What else can I say to you?
Just want to give a final thanks to everyone who came on the tour to see me talk, especially on the early stops where you were scared that people were going to dox us.
And no, everyone was safe.
No one got doxed.
The Lord assured that.
And so thank you to the 900 or so of you that came and also the ones who came for the dinner.
You know, that wasn't a cheap thing.
And I appreciate all the monetary support that people have given me.
And also the people online who have been following me for years, who have not only given me monetary support by buying my books, but also through the comments, through the emails, through the general support.
You know, it's a little bit difficult to have your life so in public, but maybe there is a reason for my life to be in public.
Maybe if I can inspire just one person, I think that would be a great thing, especially if I inspire you to live in the more spiritual way.
So we'll see where things go from here.
But I'm curious to now hear your feedback, especially this is episode number 24 of Babylon Road.
I put out 11 hours of minimalist documentary footage on the United States.
So what do you think?
How has this video series impacted where you see the country going, where you see faith going?
So for me, this was a learning experience, and I don't believe that I was able to do this, that God allowed me to do this.
I mean, not only a road trip, but also speaking to all these people, but also serving a pilgrimage function as well, and receiving all this guidance from so many priests and monks and deacons.
I feel like, you know, and also while I was driving, I listened to over 100 hours, probably 200 of religious podcasts and sermons.
I was definitely catechized.
In this five months, it was basically taking a one-year theological class in terms of all the content and the guidance, the personal guidance.
So, you know, I really grew my faith and I am very grateful.
And I hope that my faith continues to grow.
And if you're on that same path, if you're on the spiritual path, I hope that I can help you grow your faith and you by your comments and support.
Help me to grow mine.
So we'll see where that goes.
But God bless you and God bless everyone.
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